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In a message to Congress on the organization of the Nation's Defense Establishment, President Eisenhower recommended creation of the position of Director of Defense Research and Engineering, which would have a higher rank and replace the present Assistant Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering.

USAF and National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics NACA jointly announce details on the inertial guidance system to be used on the X-15 research aircraft, a flight instrument system to allow the pilot to prevent the aircraft twin reentering dense atmosphere too steeply or too shallow.

By Executive Order, President Dwight D. Eisenhower transferred the Jet Propulsion Laboratory ( Jet Propulsion Laboratory JPL ), a government-owned facility staffed and operated by the California Institute of Technology, from Army to NASA jurisdiction. The new Jet Propulsion Laboratory JPL radio telescope at Camp Irwin, Calif., called the Goldstone Tracking Facility , was capable of ...

Flight refueling demonstrated In a seaplane by Lt. Godfrey L. Cabot (USNR), by snatching 155 pounds of weight from a moving sea sled.

First afterburner for turbojet engines in America, built at National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics NACA Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory .

A Navy Committee for Evaluating the Feasibility of Space Rocketry (CEFSR) was established by BuAer. In November 1945, CEFSR recommended high priority for satellite development and estimated cost between $5 and $8 million.

New world speed record of 753.4 mph in Douglas XF4D-1 Navy Sky-ray fighter, Lt. Comdr. J. B. Verdin as pilot.

Clyde J. Fitch delivers paper "Interplanetary Communication" to the members of the American Interplanetary Society in New York .

Media:80-10-03.pdf Space News for this day. (1MB PDF)

''RELEASE: 11-334 NASA AWARDS HISTORIC GREEN AVIATION PRIZE MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. --'' NASA has awarded the largest prize in aviation history, created to inspire the development of more fuel-efficient aircraft and spark the start of a new electric airplane industry. The technologies demonstrated by the CAFE Green Flight Challenge, sponsored by Google, competitors may end up in general aviation ...

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